Ketone

1. Discuss ways in which the body's metabolism adapts to conditions of fasting/starvation. How do these adaptations affect the rate of weight loss when dieting? Metabolism is defined as the sum of all the chemical reactions that go on in living cells. These chemical reactions include the making and breaking of the bonds in carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; how the body obtains and uses energy from foods, or energy metabolism. During the process of metabolism, the body releases energy, water,…

cloudy. There is no odour in the urine and it has a pH of 6.5-7.0, meaning it is acidic. The urine has no glucose, or yeast present in it, as well as no nitrite, bilirubin or blood. However, it does contain a trace of protein, and a large amount of ketones. It also has a specific gravity of 1.010, which is normal. An indefinite decision is made that this patient has the disorder…

Cells don’t g et the glucose they need for energy, so your body begins to burn fat and break it down. This results in ketones, which are waste products from the breakdown of fat. Ketones build up in the bloodstream and make your blood more acidic. If you do not seek help right away you will end up dead. It is usually caused by illness, poor personal hygiene, and undiagnosed type 1 diabetes. The goal…

Carbohydrates : Carbohydrates are commonly identified as sugars, they are the 'staff of life' for mainly organisms. They are mainly rich class of biomolecules in nature, based on mass. Carbohydrates are also known as saccharides, in Greek sakcharon mean sugar or sweetness. They are generally distributed molecules in plant and animal tissues. In plants, and arthropods, carbohydrates from the skeletal structures, they also provide as food reserves in plants and animals. They are main energy…

Blood glucose regulation is easy to maintain through homeostasis however this is a disease that effects this process when glucagon and insulin's system is disturbed. This disease is called diabetes. Blood glucose levels increase to a point that the kidney cannot reabsorb the product therefore urine production increases. High blood glucose levels can also be referred to as hyperglycaemia which is found when blood glucose levels are high and your body cannot cope with the increase and fails to…

A Case Study on Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Puberty Essence, B, Lewis Housatonic Community College  A Case Study on Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Puberty Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, also known as type 1 diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that is caused by the destruction of cells that normally produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that removes glucose from the bloodstream for use by the body. Therefore, low insulin levels limit glucose…

In this experiment, pinacol was mixed with sulfuric acid, which protonated the pinacol, allowing it to form a better leaving group. Water is the leaving group off of the pinacol and the pinacol becomes a carbocation. The carbocation that is formed is a secondary carbocation so, rearrangement occurs. A methyl shift happens to form a tertiary carbocation, which is more stable than a secondary carbocation. Then, the remaining oxygen forms a double bond causing it to have a positive charge; allowing…

for fuel are burned. Carbohydrates serve as our body's fuel; this is where we derive our energy. A body in ketosis is acquiring energy from ketones; in this state, the body is less hungry and the person is least likely to crave for food but it also puts the body at higher risk for organ failure resulting to kidney stones, kidney failure and gout. Since ketones work to dull a person's…

sample was not unexpected. There were five organic molecules tested and some of them were not supposed to be found in the urine. The examiner expected for glucose and albumin (proteins) to be present in the urine, and maybe a trace of red blood cells. Ketones and leukocytes were not necessarily expected to be found in the urine. Glucose and proteins were semi expected to be present in the urine sample because the subject’s diet contained sugar and a moderate amount of…

and tachycardia may be due to an infection (Noble et al., 2014). The condition of his oral mucosa is related to his fluid status (dehydration due to osmotic diuresis in DKA) (Umpierrez et al., 2002). John’s sweet-smelling breath could be related to ketone production in the liver Noble-Bell G, Cox A 2014). The presence of Kussmaul respirations indicates the possible presence of metabolic acidosis as these represent the body’s attempt to maintain a normal pH in the presence of metabolic acidosis…